Henderson daily dispatch., August 23, 1939, Image 8

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ASSOCIATED PRESS AND CENTRAL PRESS
Better Prices Here Than
In East Still Expected
Number of Local People at Opening in Eastern
Carolina Tuesday, but Very Little Tobacco
Here Is Going There for Sale.
In spite of the fact that tobacco
prices slumped below Border Belt
averages when the markets Oi East
ern North Carolina's New Bright
Belt got under way on Tuesday, the
consensus of opinion here appeals
still to be that Middle Belt tobacco
will sell higher than the east, and
possibly even better than on the
Border, because of the exceptionally
good quality of the weed grown in
this area this summer.
Fred M. Allen, Jr., sales super
visor lor the Henderson market, who
visited several eastern markets at the
Tuesday openings, said it was felt by
many here who were on the mar
kets there, and who talked with east- ;
ern farmers that a considerable
quantity of tobacco from-that sec
tion would be marketed in the Mid
dle Belt, due to a heavier-bodied
leaf grown in some sections, which
is not the type generally bought on
the eastern markets. This heavier
type, Allen said, exactly fits the
grade generally seen in Henderson,
and for this >-eason brings a better
price when sold along with better
grades.
Allen said very little tobacco from
this section apparently is going to
the east. This was due, he said, to j
lower prices being paid there, and
the general forecast that local prices
will be somewhat higher than those
on the eastern markets.
The supervisor estimated Eastern
Carolina prices Tuesday were about i
$2 per hundred lower than Border
Belt prices. Lower quality of the of
ferings was given as the explanation
for this decline in averages and price
ranges.
He said a rough survey of mar
kets visited in the east showed to
bacco of light, almost bleached, color
in many instances, while on the other
hand heavier, good-bodied tobacco,
which would have brought higher
prices, sold from S2O to $27 per tum
drod pounds, due to condition of the
piles. Tobacco had been on ware
house floors on some markets for
over a week and considerable quan
tises of leaf were sold n nd then re- i
sold at from $8 to $1 * lower, while
other piles were so near a dumag-
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ed condition that full prices were not
paid for these grades, the super
visor said.
Farmers, while, of course, not
pleased \\ ith prices, did not turn anv
! considerable number of tickets, it
was stated. They were quoted as say
ing prices were about as they had
expected.
Many local farmers, warehousemen
ano business nwn from Henderson
visited different markets in the east
ern belt on 'i uesuay to get tirsi nano
information as to what various
grades and types of leaf were bring
ing on the first sales.
Harrison To
Direct Work
Prof. R. B. Harrison, who has been
in the science department of the
Henderson high school for the past
several years, will during the coming
1 school year direct a new department
to be known as “diversified occupa
tions," it was stated today by Prof.
W. D. Payne, the principal. He took
a special course at N. C. State Col
lege, Raleigh, this summer in order
l to qualify for this work.
Prof. Harrison will be paid entirely
I from Stale ami Federal iunds, wiln
out any outlay whatever by the
county. Henderson high school has
jeen selected by State authorities as
ni :> <ew >n North Carolina where
this work will be carried on during
the year.
The work will consist of directing
a cooperative work school program.
The school will arrange to place the
youth in a suitable training job with
some concern here in Henderson, and
he will work there part of the day
attend school the other part of the
day. The student then graduates
along with his regular class and at
the same time receives actual work
experience under actual job condi
tions.
It is understood the project is
somewhat of an experimental char- i
acter in an undertaking sponsored
jointly by the Stale and Federal gov- j
ernments.
Details of the arrangements and
the number of students to be enroll
ed have not been announced as yet.
NEGRO HOBOES GET
30-DAY ROAD TERMS
Two Negro "K.kghts of t u e Road"
pleaded guilty in city today
oefore Mayor Henry T. Powell in
•ity court to charges of hoboing on
i. S. A. L. passenger train. Each
given 30 days on the roads.
Norman Jones, Negro, was guilty
of being drunk and possessing il
legal whisky. He was fined $1 and
• Dot i.
An old-timer is a fellow who can
•cmember ’way back when the only-
Europeans folk felt sorry for the
Armenians.
Henderson Daily Dtspafrli [
New Traffic
Tickets For
Good Drivers
“Traffic tickets” of a different
kind are io be handed motorists here
during the next 30 days by city I
police, but this time die tickets will *
oe welcome.
The Stevenson theatre, through
S. S. Stevenson, Jr., has given thea- i
tre tickets to police to be given to
careful motorists, those who observe
the law and rights of others in oper
ating their vehicles on the city
streets.
The management of the theatre
admonished drivers to “use your
driving manners, and enjoy a pleas
ant trip to the Stevenson theatre,
vvnere pictures are always shown j
at their best." i
These tickets, no doubt, will be
more welcome than the red ones
handed out for traffic law viola
tions.
Faculty Will
Meet Sept. 12!
All members of the faculty of Hen
derson high school for the coming
year have been notified by Prof. W.
D. Payne, the principal, to meet at,
the school on Tuesday, September'
12, Prof. Payne announced today. j
“We have so many new teachers
this year,” said the principal, “that
I arranged a series of pre-school
conferences in order to orient the
new teachers and properly prepare
the entire staff for the 'opening of
school on September 14."
There have been several resigna
tions and retirements in the high
school faculty since the close of the
last term, and all of these have, been
r'nlaccd It has necessitated several
new members of the faculty, and it is
for this reason that the “orientation”
conferences have been decided upon
by the principal to acquaint the new
teachers with the school and its op
eration.
TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS
NET $2 DOLLARS MORE
Two more paid $1 for traffic law
violations, according to the records
at the city clerk’s office.
Those paying the fines were R.
C. W. Rawford and T. T. Clopton. 1
TRIBUTE TO A DOG
BY SENATOR VEST
Senator Vest, of Missouri, was at
tending court in a country town, and
while waiting for the trial of a case
in which he was interested, he was
urged by the attorneys in a dog case
to help them. He was paid a fee of
$250 by the plaintiff. Voluminous
evidence was introduced to show that 1
the defendant had shot the dog in
malice, while the other evidence
went to show that the dog had at
tacked the defendant. Vest took no
part in the trial and was not disposed
to speak. The attorneys, however,
urged him to make a speech, else
their client would not think he had
earned his fee. Being thus urged, he
arose, scanned the face of each jury
man for a moment, and said:
“Gentlemen of the Jury: The best
friend a man has in the world may
turn against him and become his
enemy. His son or daughter that he
has reared with loving care may
prove ungrateful. Those who are
nearest and dearest to us, those
whom we trust with our happiness
and our good name may become
+mitors to their faith. The money
that a man has he may lose. It flies
away from him, perhaps, when he
needs it most. A man’s reputation
may be sacrificed in a moment of
11-considered action. The people who
'me prone to fall on their knees to
do us honor when success is with
us may be the first to throw the
stone of malice when failure settles
its cloud upon our heads. The one
absolutely unselfish friend that man
can have in this selfish world, the
one that never deserts him, the one
that never proves ungrateful or
treacherous, is his dog. A man’s dog
stands by him in prosperity and
poverty, in health and sickness. He
will sleep on the cold ground where
the wintry winds blow and the snow
drives fiercely, if only he may be
near his master’s side. He will kiss
the hand that has no food to offer;
he will lick the wounds and sores
that come in encounter with the
roughness of the world. He guards
the sleep of his pauper master as if
he were a prince. When all other
friends desert he remains. When
riches take wings and reputation
falls to pieces, he is as constant in
his love as the sun in its journey
through the heavens.
“If fortune drives the master forth
an outcast in the world, friendless
and homeless, the faithful dog asks
no higher privilege than that of ac
companying him, to guard against
danger, to fight against his enemies,
and when the last scene of all comes,
and death takes the master in its
embrace, and his body is laid away
in the cold ground, no matter if ali
oiher friends pursue their way, there
by the graveside will the noble dog
be found, his head between his paws,
his eyes sad, but open in alert watch
fulness, faithful and true even in
death.”
Senator Vest sat down. He had
spoken in a low voice, without any
gesture. He made no reference to the
evidence or the merits of the case.
When he finished, judge and jury
were wiping their eyes. The jury
returned a verdict in favor of the
plaintiff for SSOO. He had sued for
S2OO. —Copright 1931, by Polk Miller
lOuUCis v-urp.
The man at the next desk says
it’s o. k. with him if women start
wearing corsets again. He believes
in tli6 freedom of the squeeze.
Shape Plans
For Opening
Os Schools
Students Report for
Enrollment Three
Weeks Hence, Pre
ceded by Meeting of
Faculty on Day Be
fore.
Final plans are being rapidly
whipped into shape for the opening
of the fail term of the Henderson
and Vance county schools, it was
learned today. White and colored
schools of the city and county will
start their fall work on Thursday,
September 14.
A meeting of the white teachers
of the euy and county has been
called oy Superintendent E. M.
Rollins to be held at the high school
here on Wednesday, September 13.
Prof. W. D. Payne, principal of the
high school, has called a meeting
of the members of his faculty for
the day before that, on Tuesday,
September 12.
Students who report on Thursday
will be registered and given fur
nished book lists. They will apply
themselves with texts and return on
Friday for lesson assignments, with
earnest on ..he following Monday,
actual class room work starting in
During the summer season var
ious schools have been renovated
and some of them repaired, and in
a few instances entire buildings
have oecn repainted. All will be in
condition for the use of the faculty
and students by the date of the
opening.
A large enrollment is anticipated,
but it is too early as yet for school
authorities to make any definite
estimate as to the probable atten
dance. Faculties have been virtual
ly completed, however, and all va
cancies will be taken care of by
the opening date, so that all teach
ers will be on hand for the start of
the new term.
We imagine those screen stars
who flocked .into Atlantic City, N.
J., for the union jurisdictional fight
between the A. A. A. A. and the A.
F. A. must have had A time.
Gt“xi condrUon . . $225
Good condition . $285 .
dition. Truck that will give you service. $395 I
Lots of Good Used Cars at Your Price From
SSO t 0 $175
Clements Motor Co. !
Phone 437 Henderson, N. C.
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Postmasters
Hear Teague
Postmaster J. R. Teague of Hen
derson, who is president of the North
Carolina Association of Postmasters,
is to address a meeting of the sixth
and eighth districts of the State as
sociation in Greensboro next Satur
day, it was learned in advices from
Greensboro today. The gathering
will be the annual assembly of the
two congi ossional district groups and
will be bold at the O. Henry hotel
in Greensboro.
One huntrred postmasters are ex
pected to attend, and among the
speakers are to be Congressmen
Carl T. Durham, of Chapel Hill, of
the sixth district, and W. O. Burgin,
of Lexington, of the eighth. The
meeting will get under way at 5
o’clock in the afternoon, with a sup
per at 6:30 o’clock and a business
meeting to follow. In addition to Mr.
Teague, another State oilicer to be
in attendance will be Mrs. Annie
Lou Scott, postmistress at Sanford,
secretary.
Mr. league attended district meet
ings last Friday at Winston-Salem
and Saturday at Asheville, and
at each.
Breaks Arm.
Clyde Thomas Saunders, of Cor
bitts, was said to be resting comfort
ably today, after having sustained a
broken arm Sunday in a fall
CAN YOU ANSWER
THESE QUESTIONS?
See Page Font
1. In what year was the Panama
Canal officially opened for com
merce?
2. Name the softest and most
malleable of the common metals.
3. Who was recently named by
President Roosevelt to succeed
Frank R. McNinch as a member of
the Federal Communications Com}
mission?
4. What is the name of the Erench
barrier of forts against Germany?
5. Where is the Amu-Darya*river?
6. What is the name of the small
reptile that can change its color?
7. Who won the men’s singles
championship in the recent Sea
Bright Lawn Tennis tournament?
3. \Vhat is the correct pronuncia
tion of the word sachem?
9. What are the young of pigeons
called?
10. In liquid measure, how many
fluid drams are in one pint?
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, l!i: W
Payne Joins
Fair Party
Prof. W. D. Payne, principal of
Henderson high school, left here to
day to join a party of campers for
i a trip to New York and the World’s
Fair and later Washington, D. C. His
connection with the party is that of
educational director of the tour,
which is made up of boys from Camp
Sequoyah, near Weaverville, just
west of Asheville.
Mr. Payne went to Weavervirie to
day to be present lor a closing ban
quet at the camp tonight, and on
Friday morning the party of 20 boys
will start on the long trip to the
north.
The group will spend a week in
New York and will have quarters
during that time at Fordham Univer
sity. They will return to Washing
ton for two days and nights before
leaving for Asheville on the return
trip.
Camp Sequoyah is owned and di
rected by C. Walton Johnson ,and is
a sort of exclusive summer encamp
ment. Mr. Payne has had connections
with the organization in other sum
mers.
SUSPENDED TERMS
GIVEN DEFENDANTS
Charlie Williams, 42, charged
with larceny of $29.86 from W. R.
Perry pleaded guilty in county court
today io forcible trespassing, and
was given four months on the roads,
commitment not to issue upon pay
ment of the costs* and not being
convicted of violating any criminal
law in Vance county for the next
two years. The road term may be
prayed at any time in the discre
tion of the court.
Curtis Fields, Negro, was guilty
of indecent exposure, and drew a
90 day term on the roads, commit
ment not to issue upon payment of
the costs, and not be convicted of
violating the criminal laws of Vance
county for the next two years.
HITLER IS BLAMED
FOR LEAF PRICES
Wilson, Aug. 23.—Adolf Hitler,
’Wfio gets the blame for many of the
world’s ills these days, got part of
the blame yesterday for the low
prices paid growers on eastern to
bacco markets as the marketing sea
son opened.
Farmers and other commented thru
| they felt that Hitler’s talk about the
Polish corridor was one of the rca
j sons for the decreases in tobacco
prices in the eastern markets under
last year.
Chamber To
Solicit Aid
A meeting of the organic,:
membership committee „r n and
derson Chamber of r\J 10 Hen '
which C. O. Seifert 7T* *
has been called to meet -.i » an >
this evening in' the chami JS ° C ° ck
ters. The assemblage is ' h quar
as “very important”. * nn °uncecl
Plans arc to bo laid f„ r a .
membership drive on Thi.r,a quiet
offer memberships to blay to
number of local ,ne,chanK „,u maU
not now belong t„ the
wno do receive eon.-id-,-,,,1,,Te
benefit from ts letivitios' dlrect
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